Grade 3Reading & writingpractice16 questions

Prefixes and suffixes

un-, re-, dis-; -ful, -less, -ly; word meaning

Free to play. Teams answer on one screen; your phone is the remote. No student devices.

Questions

What does the word unhappy mean?
- Happy again
- Happy first
- Not happy
- Very happy
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Not happy
Which word means 'not locked'?
- lockful
- locking
- relocked
- unlocked
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unlocked
The prefix un- usually means 'not'. (True or false?)
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True
What does the word rewrite mean?
- Not write
- Write again
- Write badly
- Write first
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Write again
Which word means 'to fill again'?
- disfill
- fillful
- refill
- unfill
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refill
What does the word disagree mean?
- To agree a lot
- To agree again
- To agree first
- To not agree
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To not agree
Add the prefix dis- to the word 'appear'. What is the new word? (Answer out loud)
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disappear
Which word means 'full of joy'?
- joyful
- joyless
- joyly
- rejoy
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joyful
What does the word careless mean?
- Care again
- Care very much
- Full of care
- Without care
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Without care
The suffix -less means 'full of'. (True or false?)
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False
What word means 'without hope'? Add a suffix to 'hope'. (Answer out loud)
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hopeless
Add -ly to 'quick'. Which word do you get?
- quickful
- quickless
- quickly
- unquick
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quickly
In the word 'unkindly', the base word is 'kind'. (True or false?)
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True
In 'rebuild', which part is the prefix? (Answer out loud)
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re-
In which word does un- mean 'do the opposite', not 'not'?
- unfair
- unkind
- unsafe
- untie
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untie
What is the root word in 'carelessly'?
- care
- free
- less
- ly
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care

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